BETTY STUBBS

Funeral service for E.E. "Betty" Stubbs, 1725 Broadway, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church. The Rev. Neil Stein will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-6 p.m. Friday.

Stubbs, 83, died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

She was born Aug. 11, 1913, at Orrick, daughter of James G. and Dorothy D. McMullin Dorton. She and Thad Stubbs were married Sept. 16, 1937, in Cape Girardeau.

She received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis in 1935. She worked in a research hospital in Kansas City, and then was at Southeast Missouri Hospital from 1936-43.

Stubbs was an in-service instructor for nursing home personnel in Cape Girardeau County from 1955-60. She taught home nursing care classes for Red Cross, and nursing classes for the Civil Defense.

She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women, St Mark Order of Eastern Star Chapter 167, was a volunteer with Headstart, and was active in Cub and Boy Scouting.

Stubbs was a member of State Task Force on Nursing Homes and Mental Health. She was appointed a member of the first White House Conference on Aging in 1961 by Governor Blair.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Dr. David Stubbs of DesMoines, Iowa, Dr. John Stubbs of Berkeley, Calif.; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters.